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Library board: Millville Public Library is not closing; $3.2 million state grant requires 20-year use

3329709 · February 5, 2025
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The Millville Public Library Board of Trustees issued a statement at the commission work session saying the library will not close and explaining that a $3.2 million state matching grant requires the renovated space be used as a library for at least 20 years or risk repayment.

The Millville Public Library Board of Trustees told the Millville City Commission at a work session that the library is not closing and clarified conditions tied to a state matching grant for a renovation and expansion project.

"Millville Public Library is not closing," the board said in a prepared statement read at the work session. The statement said one major condition of receiving $3,200,000 in state matching funds was that any renovated or expanded portions of the building must be used as a library for a minimum of 20 years;…

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